(July 16, 2016 at 1:46 am)Maelstrom Wrote:(July 16, 2016 at 1:44 am)Excited Penguin Wrote: You're talking about the illusion of free will now.
Can you account for the reason why you would prefer Mexican over Chinese or viceversa at any given moment? But lets take preference out of it. Suppose you have two identical buttons in front of you. What makes you press #1 and not #2, given the choice? You just don't know. You might rationalize it after the fact, but the reality of it is you have no clue what happened behind the scenes, in your mind, in order for you to make that particular decision at that particular time. It was either a random event, a predetermined one, or both, but nowhere can we make space for this absurd "free will" thing, that I bet you can't even define.
Yes, I can account for choosing one over the other. It is due to me having the free will to choose between two different things.
Did you have the free will to choose what genes you were going to have and what environment you were going to be placed in so that your whole life led up to that specific moment in time where you were going to choose between the two buttons, as well?
